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We did 4 new letters sh, sh (hexagon), ksh and tr and learnt some words using the letters.
Spoken
We played the game of dumb charades with new pictures and actions.
Culture
Given the nice weather, the class ventured out and practiced for the annual day. Boards were given out to the students to prepare their presentations. | | | | | | | Hindi
We learned 4 new letters y, r, v and s along with some simple words. We also talked about the simplicity of reading Hindi words once they know the sounds of letters as compared to English which has multiple sounds for some letters.
Spoken
The kids were divided into two teams and played the game of dumb charades. One team came up with sentences for the other team which acted it out and had their team guess it.
Culture
We practiced for the annual function, the songs, skit and poems. It is great to see the expressions and passion these kids have for the practice Please continue the practice at home, there will be some follow ups from Jinesh for the song lyrics and the music.
Today we had a class photograph taken for the year book. All the kids were beautifully dressed in Indian dresses. | | | | | | | Today's class was a lot of fun.
Thanks a lot to Sandeep ji for volunteering in the classroom. Manish was not able to come today and had sent me a note yesterday. Sandeepji taught the kids 3 new letters - "ba", "bha" and "ma".
Vrushali taught the kids to start utilizing all the materials covered in the class throughout the year well. Revised spoken hindi, we had some fun games in the class and the kids were able to practice conversation really well. They were able to speak sentences well. All of them shared the fun things they did during the spring break.
Thanks to all the parent volunteers in the class today. For the remaining weeks, I would greatly appreciate at least 3 parent volunteers be available to work one on one with the kids for annual day practice. With good focus these brilliant kids can learn very quickly. I was amazed at how much some of the kids had practiced and prepared at home and come to the class.
I am sorry, I do not remember the names of all the parents who have been helping in the class. Rimjhim's parents had come to the class today to help. Both of them helped with the classroom today.
Kids had a blast with various songs and poems.
I did get responses from some parents about their kids preferences. I will send a separate email with the final tally of songs, poem and skit. I practiced the skit with the kids to recite it once in the class. It felt to be slightly long, but they loved it. They all were laughing with it and having a nice time. I will appreciate if the parents test the timing in seconds it takes for their kids to say their dialogue. Since there is not too much back and forth, it is a very simple play for you to time them.
Kids who recited poems and songs today also loved it. They were enjoying the most. The kids finished practicing the poems a few times and joined the other kids with saare jahan se achha song. This was a lot of fun.
I have changed the end of the class from singing "Jana gana mana" to "saare Jahaan se acha" song. This will also help the kids memorize the song for annual day and simplify annual day practice. If the kids learn that song quickly, I will try the next song Kadam Kadam Badhaaye Jaa as well.
| | | | | | | Review
Hindi
We revised the letters in preparation for the Hindi reading / writing test. The test papers have been corrected and sent back. Please take time to review them. There is no Gurukul on the 15th, so please take the time to revise all the letters done so far.
Spoken
The kids played the game of snakes and ladders where the board had sentences in English and the requirement was to translate them in Hindi
Culture
Annual function assignments were discussed and finalised. Jinesh has already sent out a separate mail on this.
Dhanyavad,
2C teachers.
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Review
Hindi
We learnt two new letters 'p' and 'f' and practiced some words with them. Parents please point out words with 'p' and 'f' as you encounter them like paani, fal, phool etc.
Spoken
The concept of time was revised going over various times in Hindi. Bajne mein, bajkar, saade for half an hour, dhai etc. Please talk to and ask the students to answer the current time as and when opportunity arrives. The class was split into two teams 'seb' and 'kela' (students picked the names :)) and competed to get answers right.
Culture
We talked about Ram Navami and why it is celebrated. We also revised the culture lessons from around the year. Please follow up on the Annual day email that Jinesh sent around last time.
Notes:
We did not have the parent volunteer this week. Thanks to Satyen for stepping in. Next week, it would help a lot if we have the parent volunteer since the culture teacher will be alone in the last slot of the class due to the others going for training.
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We learnt two new letters द and ह. The students also learnt how to put the 'o' sound when it occurs as the first letter and in the middle of the word
Spoken
We played a game of bingo and made letters with the words in the game
Culture
We spoke about Holi and why it is celebrated. The kids put on a white sheet of paper and colored each other. Kids had a lot of fun doing the same. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Namaste Parents,
The mid-year testing in our class went well. The kids took written Hindi (+ culture ) test and spoken Hindi test. They were helped in understanding the questions. The written Hindi test was for 45 marks - matching , true or false (yes/No), circle the correct option kind of questions. The spoken Hindi test was oral test. Kids were shown 2 conversational videos in Hindi and the questions were based on that. Parents will get their child's answer sheet on Parent teacher conference day. Before that we will email you the result.
Culture: Kids learned about India's Republic day and India's national flag Tiranga. They made Tiranga with paper and a stick during their craft session.They also learned that the flag has orange color which represents courage and sacrifice, white represents peace and green represents fertility and prosperity. In the center there is wheel with 24 spokes which represents 24 hours of the day.
Dhanyavaad
- Class 2C teachers | | | | | | | Hindi:
Manish taught the letters "ja" and "jha". They learned a few words from these letters. "jag", "jahaaj", "jharna", "jhanda".
Homework:
Complete pages 23,24.
Spoken Hindi:
Bhavna taught action words. For complete details of the lesson please refer to:
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=55607894c85e7326&sc=documents&uc=2&id=55607894C85E7326%21932#cid=55607894C85E7326&id=55607894C85E7326%21932&sc=documents
If your child did not bring the spoken Hindi homework sheet, please print the sheet and bring it. Please realize that there are 2 pages of homework.
1. matching pictures to words.
2. Practicing the spoken hindi sentences recommended for them. Pick either Beginner or Intermediate level sentences to practice and prepare the kids to speak them in the class. Only 3 students in the whole class had prepared last weeks spoken hindi sentences. I would encourage parents to prepare the kids for their spoken hindi homework fully.
Story Time: Laalchi kisaan
The story was of greedy farmer who kills the goose to try and get all the golden eggs together. The story time had to be rushed last week due to
Culture:
Since there was teacher training and the students did not bring their dandiya's there were a couple of misses last week.
1. Instead of going down to practice how to play 5 steps of Dandiya students took turns to practice dandiya in the classroom.
2. The Diwali lamp activity was skipped and will be given to the kids next week.
We utilized the available time well:
We watched the video of Durga maata and Mahisasur Vadh on you tube animation film in Hindi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6_qVnS12is
We watched a video about Diwali: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMguvWvA5Yk
Consider using these or Dandiya dance details for next week's star student speech. Need to speak at least 7 sentences. And they should include introduction, topic, and
Star student schedule:
Manan - done
Shreya - done
Next week:
Ria
I am sending the schedule in advance for remaining students order for star students instead of having to send that each week:
Raj
Armaan
Maya
Kavya
Rimjhim
Yashvi
Garv
Arjun
Nandini
Dhruv
Divya
Nidhi
| | | | | | | The class started a little differently on 10/09. The parents and students did not recognize their Spoken Hindi Teacher. Next week please meet Bhavna our Spoken Hindi teacher so that you know who she is.
Bhavna joined from week 2 to replace Swati as the Spoken Hindi teacher for class 2C.
Spoken Hindi:
Bhavna taught to the class about various action words and comparison words.
Aage, peeche, oopar, neeche. The students had fun and shared their stories about what they like to eat. The continued practice in talking in Hindi in the class is helping the students communicate better in Hindi. We also revised the common classroom Hindi words learned from last class like mej, kursi, board, darwaja, ghadi, etc.
Please continue to talk to your kids in Hindi for 5 mins every day.
Star student: This week's star student was Manan. Next week's star student is Shreya.
Manan prepared a speech about Gandhiji. Here is the speech for your reference.
Namaste.
Mera naam Manana hai.
Mai Issaquah me rehta hoon.
Mai Challenger Elementary me pehli kaksha me padhta hoon.
Mai aaj aap sabko Gandhiji ke baare me bataoonga.
Gandhiji ka poora naam tha Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Gandhiji Gujarat se the.
Gandhiji ne ahinsa se Bharat to azaadi dilwayee.
Gandhiji ne sab ko apna kaam khud karna sikhaya.
Isiliye hum Gandhiji to Rashtra pita kehte hai.
Please remember the format of the presentation:
1. Min 7 sentences.
2. First introduction about themselves
3. Talk about a topic related to previous class culture lesson.
Next week's speech will be about Dussehra.
Story time: Graamin chuha aur Shahari Chuha
Kids learned about the story of peace and scary environment of the 2 mice and learned many new words:
Graamin Chuha - country mouse.
Shahar - city
Mehman - guest
Nimantran - invitation
Mitra - friend
Anjeer - fig
Khajoor - dates
Shahad - honey
bhojan - food
Hindi: Manish revised all the letters learned so far from 'ka' to 'chha'. Kids had fun playing games with learning to recognize the letters and think of words from those letters. Please continue to remind them the 6 letters they have learned so far.
Culture: Jinesh talked about Dussehra festival. We talked about Dussehra festival celebrations in various parts of the country and how it is done differently. We talked about the significance of Ram Leela and Ravan dahan. We covered the story of Ram and Raavan. We also talked about Navratri, dandiya and durga pooja. And talked about the story of vadh of Mahisaasur daemon.
Kids decorated dandiyaa with colorful tapes.
| | | | | | | We started the class with om chanting and prayer and ended with national anthem. The kids are able to sing them well mostly. This class students are very well behaved and are sincere in the class.
Hindi:
Manish taught 3 characters to the students: ka, kha, ga. Please encourage your kids to note as many words starting with these 3 letters during the week in Hindi as possible. That will help them remember these letters and associate them with words.
Culture:
Jinesh covered the importance of Raksha Bandhan and how Rakhi festival is conducted in India. Many kids shared their own stories about Raksha Bandhan and talked about various sweets they get to eat. Kids made a Rakhee in the class that you would find in their bags today. Last weeks activity for Ganesha bookmark was not done and was done today. Kids got a map of India and we talked about the capital of India, Islands of India, neighbors of India. Please ask them to remember these words:
Rajdhani means capital, Dweep means island, Rajya means state, Rashtra means country.
Spoken Hindi:
The topic for today was learning 4 primary workds for this week: "Yah, Wah, Haa.n, Nahii.n". Please use them in your communication with the kids at home in Hindi when you can. Kids got a spoken Hindi homework sheet to fill in Haa.n (true) / Nahii.n(false). We divided the class into 3 groups and covered the spoken hindi sheet and all the words on it with their meanings.
Story Time:
Today Jinesh read the story "Laalchi Kutta" to the kids. Moral: Laalach ka phal bura hota hai.
They learned and revised these new words: Laalach - greed, Haddi - bone, tukda - peice, thakna - get tired, dabana - to press, choosna - to suck, vichar - think.
Manish, Bhavna and Jinesh | | | | | | | Hindi
The students acquainted themselves with the new teachers and their new classmates. Given the summer break, we spent time revising the vowels. Visual cues from a picture book and youtube were used to facilitate and the students responded well.
Culture
We talked about Ganesh Chaturthi. Ganesha's birthday and talked about Ganesha's birth. Celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi in India. We also did a mock Ganesh Chaturthi celebration in the class. We listened to "Jai Jagadeesh Hare" arati. We talked about Lokmanya Tilak who started the Ganesha festival.
Jinesh read a story to the children - Tidda aur Chinti. The lesson of the story was, "Hard work done today pays off in the future".
Spoken
Swati split the class into three teams and quizzed them on animals, fruits etc. The class did well on these.
Summer workbooks that were submitted were corrected. For those who have not yet submitted, please do so at the earliest. We encourage parents to ask the kids what they did in class and their feedback and let us know.
Satyen will be the lead parent volunteer. Please co-ordinate with him if you need to re-schedule your volunteering dates.
In general, the class is well disciplined and in touch with the basics. So next week, we will move forward with teaching new alphabets. The homework for this week is for the kids to write down the vowels 3 times in their notebook.
Regards,
Swati, Jinesh and Manish. | | | | |
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